Eastern Promises (2007)
Eastern Promises 2007
David Cronenberg, the distinguished director of Violent Story starring Viggo Mortensen, is here with another exciting story. Written by Steve Knight, who was nominated for an Oscar for Dirty Pretty Things, the movie stars Viggo Mortensen, who is also a regular at Cronenberg. The enigmatic and charismatic Russian Nikolai Luzhin (Mortensen) works as a chauffeur for London's most violent and dangerous family of Eastern European descent. The family is part of a criminal organization called the Law Thieves. In a place where all the wealth is controlled by the despotic and hypocritical son Kirill (Vincent Cassel), who is closer to Nikolai than to his family. He runs a restaurant of Trans-Siberian origin that is considered one of his most luxurious establishments, but which caters to a wild and violent world that no one knows about. But Nikolai's life, protected by this powerful environment, is completely shattered on Christmas Day when he meets midwife Anna Khitrova (Oscar nominee Naomi Watts), who works at a north London hospital. Anna witnesses the death of a young girl during childbirth and is deeply shocked by this event. Anna is determined to find the lonely baby's other relatives. On the one hand, he found the baby's mother's diary; but it's everyday Russian and Anna doesn't speak a word of Russian. Deciding to follow this event, Anna is supported by her mother Helen (Sinead Cusack); but her Russian uncle, Stepan (Jerzy Skolimowski), warns Anna not to get involved in such a business. In fact, he is right; The scenery that emerges at dawn does not warm one's heart at all. On every page of his diary, he will witness the terrible world of the Vori organization. Nikolai, who is from the same world as Semyon and Kirill, but learns the true face of the Thieves world that Anna reveals in her diary, begins to lose his loyalty and devotion to his own family. The depressed attitude of the family will shake Nikolai's trust in them. The bitter voices of murder, lies and lives on the brink of vengeance, including the life of Nicholas, will resonate in the darkest corners of London.
David Cronenberg, the distinguished director of Violent Story starring Viggo Mortensen, is here with another exciting story. Written by Steve Knight, who was nominated for an Oscar for Dirty Pretty Things, the movie stars Viggo Mortensen, who is also a regular at Cronenberg. The enigmatic and charismatic Russian Nikolai Luzhin (Mortensen) works as a chauffeur for London's most violent and dangerous family of Eastern European descent. The family is part of a criminal organization called the Law Thieves. In a place where all the wealth is controlled by the despotic and hypocritical son Kirill (Vincent Cassel), who is closer to Nikolai than to his family. He runs a restaurant of Trans-Siberian origin that is considered one of his most luxurious establishments, but which caters to a wild and violent world that no one knows about. But Nikolai's life, protected by this powerful environment, is completely shattered on Christmas Day when he meets midwife Anna Khitrova (Oscar nominee Naomi Watts), who works at a north London hospital. Anna witnesses the death of a young girl during childbirth and is deeply shocked by this event. Anna is determined to find the lonely baby's other relatives. On the one hand, he found the baby's mother's diary; but it's everyday Russian and Anna doesn't speak a word of Russian. Deciding to follow this event, Anna is supported by her mother Helen (Sinead Cusack); but her Russian uncle, Stepan (Jerzy Skolimowski), warns Anna not to get involved in such a business. In fact, he is right; The scenery that emerges at dawn does not warm one's heart at all. On every page of his diary, he will witness the terrible world of the Vori organization. Nikolai, who is from the same world as Semyon and Kirill, but learns the true face of the Thieves world that Anna reveals in her diary, begins to lose his loyalty and devotion to his own family. The depressed attitude of the family will shake Nikolai's trust in them. The bitter voices of murder, lies and lives on the brink of vengeance, including the life of Nicholas, will resonate in the darkest corners of London.
